Trump administration orders halt to in-progress wind farm construction

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Every single bad thing you can imagine, they are doing. The USA simply has villains in charge, and they’ve set themselves the task of destroying anything that might sustain or improve life for anyone except themselves. In movies when this happens, real Americans take them down. In real life apparently they just sit and watch.

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  • Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So are you an American not doing anything, or a foreigner who has no idea what it’s like to actually be in the situation?

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    • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m a foreigner with an opinion. I talk to American friends every few days. I have some idea of what you’re up against and I recognize it’s not easy to do anything to slow this down or stop it. Trump’s threatening my country and so are our own right-wing politicians, and I’m aware we all face similar difficulties: it’s not easy to know what to do, and not easy to organize it even when you have an idea. But I can see it will take something unusual in the USA, not just waiting for an election.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re just another US obsessed person from another country cosplaying and trying to tell Americans what to do.

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    • jaemo@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      a foreigner

      Oof. Masks off all up in here, I guess.

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  • Pastel_Problem@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I honestly wish there WAS something we could do but at this point its not logistically possible. I wish half the country could flood the capital and protest but the US is simply too large. It takes days and hundreds of dollars to travel even a few states away if you cant fly. I understand your frustration but you gotta cut us some slack while we figure this out.

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    • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No need to travel. Organise a general strike

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  • DrDickHandler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They don’t sit and watch. They cheer them on.

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• SGGeorwell@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Thank you for your attention to this matter” is how they sign all of their fascistic orders. They think it’s all funny. I promise you they’re laughing at all this shit.

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• Graymouzer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This seems like a slamdunk lawsuit. We get to pay the penalties for this asshole’s stupidity.

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  • ericjmorey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We’re going to be paying in so many ways for decades because of that asshole

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This motherfucker is still on this?

  He’s a less lovable Don Quixote.

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• PragmaticOne@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Trump is a fucking orange chode eating shit for brains.

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• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When techni-optimists where talking about green tech, I called the renewables ban. Misanthrope wins again!

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• OverWatchDelta@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TBH, winds energy is the least friendly to the environmental. The energy and logistics to get them manufactured and transported is pretty much doing worse for the environment than if there were no wind farms

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  • leftytighty@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is demonstrably false, most wind farms offset their carbon cost in a matter of single digit years and then it’s pure profit.

    These numbers exist, you don’t have to take propaganda at face value.

    Here’s something that might be accessible to you because it has funny youtu.be/wBC_bug5DIQ

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  • solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Source: Shell via Fox News

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    • Blade9732@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, no, you don’t understand. It is far cleaner to dig huge holes in mountains, destabilizing the ground and washing the excess sludge into people’s drinking water. Then, build a giant plant that belches radioactive debris and helps heat up the climate. Oh ya, also kill the people that produce it early, especially if you can use children.

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s less co2 emissions after 5 to 8 months.

    energy amortization

    www.vestas.com/en/…/energy-payback

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    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What can “never” mean here?

      For coal, however, if you invest 1kWh you typically get below 0.4 kWh in return.

      So people run coal plants to destroy energy? Like, you have too much electricity and so you build a coal plant to get rid of it?

      I’m not sure that whatever metric this sources matches what most people think when they hear “energy amortization”.

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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a fun day when I see a new talking point.

    I thought about doing the math to demonstrate that it’s not true, but I feel like just having a good belly laugh and moving on is probably a better use of my time.

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    • leftytighty@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wish it was new… These lazy fuckers recycle their talking points and morons like the one above eat them up because it’s easier than a simple search I guess.

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    • OverWatchDelta@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      More than likely the, I don’t care to have Lemmy change my mind

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